If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
HERMANN HESSEThere is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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